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Asharq Al-Awsat
Asharq Al-Awsat
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Asharq Al-Awsat

EU Mulls Sanctions as Russia Accused of Shelling Ukraine from Nuclear Plant

A woman walks outside a children's hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, which was hit by a Russian air strike on Wednesday, March 9, 2022. Evgeniy Maloletka, AP

The European Union will discuss tightening sanctions against Russia on Monday, as Moscow is accused of using the continent's largest nuclear power plant to store weapons and launch missiles on the surrounding regions of southern Ukraine.

The situation at the captured Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant is "extremely tense", Ukraine's atomic energy agency chief Petro Kotin said, adding that the Russians had installed missile launchers and used the facility to shell the Dnipro region.

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